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What: GQ magazine, The Sports Issue

Price: $3

New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady, along with Minnesota Timberwolve Kevin Garnett grace the cover of the sports issue of GQ, which went on sale this week.

The men’s fashion magazine doesn’t disappoint with profiles of NHL scoring leader Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames, the Mannings; Archie, Eli and Peyton “football’s first family” and Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai, one of the richest men in the world, and his bid to buy the Kentucky Derby with his prized thoroughbreds.

There is a lighthearted spread of some of the best-dressed athletes and the first woman who taught tthem about style--their mom.

The magazine also looks at 11 of the all-time worst trades.

For many Dodger fans the 1993 trade of pitcher Pedro Martinez to the Montreal Expos for Delino DeShields may be at the top of their list but GQ ranked it No. 5.

GQ’s worst is the 1971 trade of Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi. The New York Mets sent Ryan, Don Rose, Leroy Stanton and Francisco Estrada to the Angels for Fregosi. Ryan won 295 of his 324 career victories after the trade. Fregosi eventually was sold to the Texas Rangers.

For Laker fans trading Vlade Divac to Charlotte for the draft rights to Kobe Bryant in 1996 was a genius move by then-General Manager Jerry West. It came in at No. 2.